Michigan State University (Writing in Digital Environments Research Center)

The Writing in Digital Environments Research Center at Michigan State University, in partnership with the Michigan State University Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, and the Science Museum of Minnesota, will develop and test a research framework to study the new generation of social technologies (interactive Web-based social spaces), and how they influence the creation of knowledge and museum practice. The content base of the research will be the Science Museum of Minnesota’s Science Buzz (http://buzz.smm.org/buzz/) at the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, and includes the Buzz Web site and Science Buzz kiosk case studies. Research methodologies, models, and findings will be part of the dissemination effort, which will occur through conference presentations and publications.